FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
service providers use to run their business
and remotely monitor and manage for
their customers.
SonicWall
Shahnawaz Sheikh, Sales and Channel Director,
SonicWall META and CEE.
Today’s managed security services address
much wider areas of security solutions,
including next generation firewalls, next
generation endpoint, email security, remote
access solutions and wireless security to
name the primary technologies. The new
SecureFirst MSP Partner Programme,
offers exclusive financial, enablement and
support components designed to help
partners build and accelerate managed
security service business.
Available to SecureFirst Silver, Gold and
Platinum Partners, the SecureFirst MSSP
Programme is designed to develop, enable,
and support a global network of managed
service provider partners. Managed service
provider partners can either implement
the SonicWall managed service provider
blueprints by leveraging SonicWall training,
technical resources and marketing assets, or
jointly develop custom MSS offerings that
build on the Partner’s existing managed
service core competencies and expertise.
Managed service providers
A look at the range of security services from top regional, managed service providers.
BT Al Saudia
The managed security services include
next-generation managed SOC, managed
security devices, endpoint protection,
threat intelligence, vulnerability
management, professional services,
consultancy. BT Al Saudia brings a
blend of security vendors, to provide
end-to-end managed security services
to customers, helping them ease their
security operations. The managed security
services have been designed and deployed
in a well-established node supported with
dedicated connectivity.
The compute building blocks consists
of Cisco UCS platform to run security
services and applications, such as SIEM
components and vulnerability centre;
server virtualisation of the security
components and supporting services;
storage and archiving of customer SIEM
logs and events and other application data;
fast and reliable IP connectivity between
SOC components.
eHosting DataFort
The services and solutions include, Real
Time Threat Monitoring, Remote Managed
Security Services, PCI Security Services,
Advanced Threat Protection, Vulnerability
Management, Incident Response, amongst
others. eHDF has also recently launched
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a Security Operations Center in the UAE.
It offers customers a portfolio of Managed
Security Services along with Remote
Managed SIEM Services.
These services can be delivered
either within eHDF’s data centre, on-
premises at the end-customer site or
on the cloud. Some of the key features
include enhanced threat intelligence,
custom business and technical use
case development, industry vertical
intelligence, regional and global threat
awareness, low TCO, guaranteed SLAs
and 24/7 monitoring and support.
Help AG
The primary services are 24x7 Security
Event Management and Incident
Response, Managed Remediation Services,
Managed Web Defence - Application Layer
DDOS, Anti-Defacement, Anti-Phishing,
Managed Web Application Firewall,
Managed Vulnerability Assessments,
Managed Endpoint Security, Managed
Endpoint Threat Detection and Response,
Managed Threat Intelligence. Vendor
partners include Splunk, Palo Alto
Networks, F5 Networks, Skybox Security,
Carbon Black, ThreatQuotient, Tenable,
IBM, Beyond Trust and Symantec.
The infrastructure consists of domain
environment, patch management, AV
and DLP solutions, multiple layers of
firewalls, web applications, databases,
two-factor authentication solution, web
application firewalls, outbound and
inbound proxies, PAM solution, Incident
Response Platform, Threat Intelligence
Platform, knowledge management, SIEM
environment, tools for automation, and
vulnerability management.
NXN
Over the last couple of years, NXN has made
significant investments in building a Safe
City Managed Services offering and through
its integrated portfolio of technology,
intelligence and insights, provide integrated
digital transformation services. This
includes urban safety and security, security
analytics, critical infrastructure protection,
for governments, real estate developers,
enterprises, and small and medium
customers across the GCC.
NXN has strategic partnerships with
solution providers including McAfee, Vidsys,
and others. NXN has built its platform
with open-standards from the ground
up, to integrate with different vendor
technologies. The goal is not to disturb
customer landscapes, but rather to connect
it to the NXN open platform and augment
the customer’s operational capabilities with
NXN managed services offering.
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